MAJOR WHO STREAMING UPDATE:
[1/3]. Live streaming site Twitch will be broadcasting most of classic Who live online, worldwide! Every weekday from 29th May-21st July we will be treated with the next set of episodes, broadcast 3 times in the day. This includes, in original broadcast order, all complete episodes from 1963-1989, except for “Day of the Daleks”, “The Five Doctors”, “Resurrection of the Daleks”, “Planet of Fire”, “Revelation of the Daleks” and “Remembrance of the Daleks”; also including incomplete 1960s serials “The Ice Warriors” and “The Web of Fear” and 1981 spin-off “K9 and Company”.#DoctorWho#ClassicDoctorWho#Twitch#Streaming#WilliamHartnell#PatrickTroughton#JonPertwee#TomBaker#PeterDavison#ColinBaker#SylvesterMcCoy

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After sporadic releases from the 83 to the end of the decade the VHS line kicked off proper in 1990. The edited 'movie format' was out and for the first time we got complete episodes. Although the next episode captions where removed from Hartnell stories. The photo covers where gone as well. Replaced by Target like painted covers. In fact, in a rare moment of BBC synergy, the stories released in 1990 also had their Target novelisations rereleased with the same cover, at the same time.
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Online live-streaming service Twitch.tv is going to run a classic Doctor Who marathon, starting from An Unearthly Child to Survival, 500 episodes in 7 weeks! Yes, you heard it right, it’s a Classic Doctor Who marathon!
Best thing about it: it’s free, and not region-restricted, which means Whovians across the world can watch this stream! And if you only watched some Classic Who episodes, or never watched the classics at all, this is your chance!
Livestreaming starts May 29th, and you can watch it every Monday-Friday, 11am Pacific Time and 7pm UK time.
This is the official Twitch event, supported by the BBC. They even uploaded a video about it on the Doctor Who channel.

NEWS: Doctor Who is coming to Twitch for a seven week marathon!
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Over 500 classic episodes from the 26 seasons of classic Doctor Who will air worldwide on the live streaming video platform Twitch from May 29th.
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Fans will be able to watch adventures from the first seven Doctors – from 1963’s An Unearthly Child to 1989’s Survival – while chatting live to thousands of other viewers around the world.
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This epic screening of classic Doctor Who from May 29th until July 23rd follows Twitch’s successful marathons of Power Rangers, Bob Ross: The Joy of Painting and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
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Mark your 500 Year Diaries! Starting May 29th, you can tune in each day, Monday to Friday from 11am Pacific US / 7pm UK to catch episodes on Twitch.tv/TwitchPresents.
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53 years ago today "The chase" began as the doctor (William Hartnell) and his companions Ian Chesterton (William Russel), Barbara Wright (Jacqueline hill) and Vicky (Maureen O'brien) are chased across time and space by daleks bent on revenge. The story included an appearance by the Beatles who were seen singing (Ticket to ride) on the time and space visualiser. It was an appearance they had made on top of the pops earlier in the year. The original plan was to have them appear as with ageing make up to make them appear as older men in the future. This was vetoed by their manager Brian Epstein so the clip was used instead. The story also marks the very first appearance of daleks with solar panels around their neck part above the arms. This made sure the daleks recieved continual power to function unlike their SKARO counterparts who were reliant on the floor of their city for power. These dalek designs were used for the rest of the doctor who series until 1989. Albiet in different colours. The story marked the first appearance of Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) who would go on to become the first doctor's next companion. Sadly it's also the last one to feature Ian and Barbara who left the doctor to travel in the dalek's time machine back to their own time on earth. The story is divided by fans as it is mostly played for laughs and is not as serious as the previous two dalek stories with them saying unusual things like when a dalek tells another dalek "well do it then!" after giving him his orders. Other things like the haunted house sequence with a robot Frankenstein throwing a dalek, a robot Count Dracula and a robot doctor that does not even look like the doctor played by Edmond Warwick. The story is somewhat reprieved by the appearance of the mechanoids, robot servants of the planet mechanism. A fireball battle between the daleks and mechanoids ensues. If you like your doctor who a bit funny and crazy it's a good story. If you like dalek stories to be more threatening and serious, forget it! #doctorwho#firstdoctor#williamhartnell#williamrussell#ianchesterton#barbarawright#vickidoctorwho#maureenobrien#dalek#daleks#mechanoids#steventaylor#peterpurves

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Today In Beatles History - 22nd May 1965.

The 'Doctor Who' story 'The Chase' begins broadcast on BBC1 which features The Beatles in a film clip.
It was originally planned for the band to appear as themselves, but under heavy "aging" make-up, to represent themselves in the future. However their manager, Brian Epstein, objected to them appearing on the programme, so footage from 'Top of the Pops' of the group performing "Ticket to Ride" was used instead.

Oops looks like I've forgotten to post for a while. Oh yeah and I hit 200 followers so that's dope! Gonna be out of town until Thursday, but I'll start the 30 day challenge thing up again proper when I get home

My tribute edit to graham strong who died last week. As an avid doctor who viewer in the 1960’s graham recorded the soundtrack to every one he watched to a reel to reel tape machine. At first the process used was hanging a microphone over the tv speaker. Then he was able to connect the sound of the television right in to the tape recorder. A direct sound source, of his innovation and this made virtually crystal clear sound and very good quality. He owned these tapes for many years until 1994 when he met a doctor who fan who had contacts with the bbc tv channel. They lent them off graham and these recordings were used as the sound of restored doctor who tv episodes and most important ones missing from the archives that had been junked during the 1960’s and early 1970’s. These missing stories were released as soundtrack recordings with linking narration. There have been several stories that have been animated and Graham’s soundtracks have been substantially used on them. The actual film prints of early doctor who stories had very poor sound and life has been made a whole lot easier for Who fans and archive restoration technicians because of this man. Only a few months ago graham gave his collection to doctor who sound restoration restorer Mark Ayers to keep. This man has left a lasting legacy to the doctor Who universe by simply being a fan and wanting to preserve something of his beloved television series to keep in the days where there were no repeats, no DVD’s, no internet and no video recordings. Modern whovians are lucky in this respect that it’s doctor who 24/7 and don’t we love it. Rest in peace graham you will always be very important to us and I hope you like this picture tribute to him. #doctorwho#grahamstrong#doctorwhorestorationteam#doctorwhorestoration#markayres#firstdoctor#seconddoctor#williamhartnell#patricktroughton

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I spent an exciting Saturday night wrapping up all these prints ready for the Tea Green Kibble Palace event in a couple of weeks...what can I say, I'm looking forward to it.

The Doctor, Susan, Barbara and Ian arrive on the planet of Drakaar a desolate world, ravaged by war for millennia to the point where the remains of millions of soldiers and innocents litter the landscape. The crew come across an archeological party led by Professor Kandakis, studying the remains of the skeletons, but the Doctor doesn't trust them and suggests that the only thing that can be learned from the planet is the utter futility of war. But the archeological party have no intentions of leaving the planet. Kandakis believes he has a way of regenorating life from the ancient bones and, if his experiments are fruitful, he can regenorate millions of the most vicious soldiers the galaxy has ever known!

The Tardis arrives in, what the Doctor believes to be, the east of England, but he is unable to determine when thanks to a fault on the vessel's chronometer. Seeing that the outside appears to be safe, Ian, Barbara and Susan decide to go exploring, leaving the Doctor to carry out repairs.
But the three stray too far and run into a group of men on horseback, led by Matthew Hopkins, the self-titled 'Witch Finder General' who, upon seeing their modern attire, becomes suspicious of them and quickly declares them to be sorcerers. They are taken to a village that Hopkins intends to 'cleanse' of the witches he believes to be there. Ian manages to escape, but when he goes back to the village to rescue Barbara and Susan he sees that Hopkins has convinced the men of the village to turn on the women, rounding them up so that he can determine who faces death as a witch. Barbara and Susan must galvanise the other imprisoned women to form a plan of escape before Hopkins can carry out his 'trials'.
Meanwhile, the Doctor fixes the broken instrument and soon learns that they've landed in 1646, in a part of England notorious for its vicious witch hunts. He heads off to find his grand-daughter and companions, but with a village turned against itself, taken over by a man obsessed, can the Doctor hope to rid the place of something more terrifying than any imagined witchcraft?

Back in the olden days of Who, they could actually do stories that were purely historical- no sci fi...well, outside of an alien and his grand-daughter and his space/time machine, so this was my idea for one.

Daleks Mark 2 - These daleks appeared in "The dalek invasion of earth" in 1964. They were taller than the SKARO mark 1 daleks with a higher base. The other difference is the mark 2 had a radar dish at the rear of the body that received transmitted power from a station some distance away. The saucer commander dalek and a supreme controller were black coloured and had black domes with blue spots. These daleks were amphibious and were highly suited to invading heavily water based planets like the earth. It is not known why the doctor has not encountered these types since but it is thought that these were the earliest daleks set out to invade the galaxy and the radar dishes were an early attempt for the daleks to have a continuous supply of energy without resorting to static electricity under the floors of the city when they moved on their native planet SKARO. It is also unexplained why the "Mark 3" prototype devised by SKARO scientist Davros was able to move freely themselves with meshes above the arms before the SKARO bound daleks with no meshes or radar dish became dependant of their city. The first doctor encountered the mark 2's many years before his first encounter with the mark 1's on Skaro. #doctorwho#firstdoctor#williamhartnell#thedalekinvasionofearth#dalekmk2#dalekmark2#davros#mark3travelmachine#wearethemastersofearth

This really is a tough choice, but I suppose I gotta go with the Dalek's Master plan. Really though there's so many other great stories I love just as much, and I admitably haven't seen all of the classic series yet so this may change. The Chase and The Enemy of the World get honorable mentions as well